RECOMMENDED READING

This recommended reading list of works of Aristotle, Aquinas, and the Thomistic tradition was curated by the former Director of the Thomistic Institute, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Key works of Aristotle:

  • Categories

  • Nicomachean Ethics

  • De Anima

  • Metaphysics (esp. Books I, II, IV, VII-IX, XI, XII)

  • Posterior Analytics

Key works of Aquinas:

  • De Ente et Essentia

  • Commentary on Boethius’ De Trinitate

  • Summa Contra Gentiles

  • De Potentia Dei, q. 7

  • Disputed Questions on the Soul

  • Summa Theologiae

  • Commentary on the Gospel of St. John

Moderns:

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